Privacy Policy

We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Notice describes how The Part Market.com and its affiliates (collectively "The Part Market") collect and process your personal information through the The Part Market website. By using The Part Market, you are consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Customers Does The Part Market Collect?

We collect your personal information in order to provide and continually improve our products and services.

Here are the types of personal information we collect:

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to The Part Market. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of The Part Market's services.
Automatic Information: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of The Part Market, including information about your interaction with content and services available through The Part Market. Like many websites, we use "cookies" and other unique identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses The Part Market and other content served by or on behalf of The Part Market on other websites.

For What Purposes Does The Part Market Use Your Personal Information?

We use your personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:

Purchase and delivery of products and services. We use your personal information to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, and communicate with you about orders, products and services, and promotional offers.
Provide, troubleshoot, and improve The Part Market services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of the The Part Market experience.
Recommendations and personalization. We use your personal information to recommend features, products, and services that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalize your experience with The Part Market.
Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we collect and use your personal information to comply with laws. For instance, we collect from seller's information regarding place of establishment and bank account information for identity verification and other purposes.
Communicate with you. We use your personal information to communicate with you in relation to The Part Market services via different channels (e.g., by phone, email, chat).
Advertising. We use your personal information to display interest-based ads for features, products, and services that might be of interest to you. We do not use information that personally identifies you to display interest-based ads.
Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks. We use personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers, The Part Market, and others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks.

What About Cookies and Other Identifiers?

To enable our systems to recognize your browser or device and to provide and improve The Part Market, we use cookies and other identifiers.

Does The Part Market Share Your Personal Information?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling our customers' personal information to others. We share customers' personal information only as described below and with subsidiaries The Part Market LLC. Controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.

Transactions involving Third Parties: We make available to you services, products, applications, or skills provided by third parties for use on or through The Part Market.com.
Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing payments, transmitting content, scoring, assessing and managing credit risk, and providing customer service. These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Protection of The Part Market and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; or protect the rights, property, or safety of The Part Market, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.

We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission by using encryption protocols and software.
We follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) when handling credit card data.
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of customer personal information. Our security procedures mean that we may ask to verify your identity before we disclose personal information to you.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computers, devices, and applications. We recommend using a unique password for your The Part Market account that is not used for other online accounts. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What Information Can I Access?

You can access your information, including your name, address, payment options, profile information, and purchase history in the "Your Account" section of the website.

Are Children Allowed to Use The Part Market?

The Part Market does not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use The Part Market services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without the consent of the child's parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to use The Part Market, your use and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Washington. If you have any concern about privacy at The Part Market, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice will change also. You should check our websites frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Examples of Information Collected

Information You Give Us When You Use The Part Market.com

You provide information to us when you:

search or shop for products or services in our stores;
add or remove an item from your cart, or place an order through or use The Part Market.com;
provide information in Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one email address or mobile number when shopping with us) or Your Profile
offer your products or services on or through The Part Market;
communicate with us by phone, email, or otherwise;
complete a questionnaire, a support ticket, or a contest entry form;
participate in Discussion Boards or other community features;
provide and rate Reviews

As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as:

identifying information such as your name, address, and phone numbers;
payment information;
your age;
your location information;
your IP address;
people, addresses and phone numbers listed in your Addresses;
email addresses of your friends and other people;
content of reviews and emails to us;
personal description and photograph in Your Profile
information and documents regarding identity, including Social Security and driver's license numbers;
corporate and financial information;
credit history information; and

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyze include:

the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet;
login, email address, and password;
the location of your device or computer;
content interaction information, such as content downloads, streams, and playback details, including duration and number of simultaneous streams and downloads, and network details for streaming and download quality, including information about your internet service provider;
device metrics such as when a device is in use, application usage, connectivity data, and any errors or event failures;
version and time zone settings;
purchase and content use history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features like high rated sellers
the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our websites, including date and time; products and content you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs);
phone numbers used to call our customer service number; and
images or videos when you shop in our stores, or stores using The Part Market services.

We may also use device identifiers, cookies, and other technologies on devices, applications, and our web pages to collect browsing, usage, or other technical information.

Information from Other Sources

Examples of information we receive from other sources include:

updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily;
information about your interactions with products and services offered by our subsidiaries;
search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links);
credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud and to offer certain credit or financial services to some customers.